Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [not/n't] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although income inequalities have been reduced in Britain this century , this reduction has not been sufficient to justify the claim that class divisions are disappearing . |
| 2 | On the other hand , cost reduction has not been sufficient to avoid censure by the MMC . |
| 3 | Indeed , such progress has not been common to all publishers — some still produce little more than typesetting tapes with cryptic codes labelling the various components of each entry , and little or no accompanying software or documentation for their search or extraction . |
| 4 | By itself , this approach does not establish a concept of durability since , in the case of perishables , it is self-evident that , if at the time of delivery to the carrier the natural produce are in such peak condition that they are likely to arrive in a deteriorated state , the requirement of merchantability at the time of delivery to the buyer has not been satisfied . |
| 5 | Aduna said he gave international organisations an early warning five months ago , ‘ but the response has not been good ’ . |
| 6 | The early response has not been enthusiastic , though aides insisted yesterday that for many households the new tax bills would amount to only a few dollars a month . |
| 7 | The fine drizzle that has been falling all afternoon has not been enough to stop the match between Scotland and Ireland , but enough to keep the crowds away . |
| 8 | The former Old Trafford favourite has n't been idle since a knee injury forced him to quit the game nearly two years ago . |
| 9 | Our luck has n't been that hot so far . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend is right to point out that , in the past five years and beyond , the taxpayer has not been ungenerous in giving money to the coal industry . |
| 11 | No , they are threatening a sterling crisis because the fiscal and monetary tightening has not been brutal enough . |
| 12 | And because the horse has n't been upset , it is more likely to be co-operative next time it is to be shod . |
| 13 | This opposition has not been coherent or co-ordinated , and is still much weaker than the centripetal trends it opposes . |
| 14 | Ms Mackenzie first approached the Environmental Committee last May , but so far the result has n't been encouraging . |
| 15 | To often we have heard of buildings that have been put under capital expenditure and then the revenue has not been available for their use . |
| 16 | The car has not been perfect this year , but it feels a lot better now than it did . |
| 17 | But this kind of razamatazz has n't been necessary for the XJ220 . |
| 18 | Hazlitt has not been short of biographers , but before reading Jones I never felt I had begun to know the man , or formed any satisfying conception of his obviously contradictory nature . |
| 19 | Data entry has not been error-trapped and every field will accept any type of entry , even the date field , so it 's up to the user to ensure the integrity of the data he enters . |
| 20 | But overall , 75% of you have not had an affair — although only 65% are confident that their husband/partner has not been unfaithful to them . |
| 21 | This chapter has not been able to cover them all — the impetus GPFHs have had in driving through quality improvements for example ( Glennerster et al. |
| 22 | In principle this format has much to recommend it , but in this case the practice has not been successful . |
| 23 | THAT S when Ill be convinced some gypsy scum fan has nt been doctoring Wilkos cornflakes ( or something ) . |
| 24 | Yet the trend towards bureaucratization has not been uniform . |
| 25 | The methodolgy of the research has not been innovative . |
| 26 | The cashmere shawl had n't been expensive . |
| 27 | The league programme had not been free from the upsets that could arise from the organizational confusion of most Edwardian football clubs . |
| 28 | In January 1990 the deputy director of the Vietnam State Bank 's foreign department , Nguyen Cong Hai , stated that even though Vietnam had satisfied the IMF 's requirements of reducing inflation and the promulgation of deregulatory reforms , aid had not been forthcoming . |
| 29 | But previous experience with the collection of betterment had not been encouraging . |
| 30 | Such an intention had not been apparent in the earlier government policy of the 1960s . |